Outage in Blacksmith
GitHub Actions Degraded Availability
Resolved Major
March 05, 2026 - Started 2 months ago
- Lasted about 5 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
GitHub Actions experienced degraded availability for 2.6 hours, preventing jobs from being picked up due to severe degradation in GitHub's API. The incident affected GitHub Actions and API requests, causing a backlog of jobs that needed to be processed. Recovery began when GitHub's APIs came back online, with some elevated wait times continuing as the remaining backlog was cleared.
We are seeing recovery from GitHub's APIs and jobs getting picked up again. We expect a bit of a backlog as jobs get run from during the incident duration.
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MONITORING
2 months ago - at 03/05/2026 05:29PM
We are seeing recovery from GitHub's APIs and jobs getting picked up again. We expect a bit of a backlog as jobs get run from during the incident duration.
INVESTIGATING
2 months ago - at 03/05/2026 04:46PM
GitHub has declared Actions is experiencing Degraded Availability and indicated multiple services are experiencing service degradation. We're tracking this incident and will provide updates as GitHub provides them.u003chttps://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/g5gnt5l5hf56u003e
IDENTIFIED
2 months ago - at 03/05/2026 05:11PM
We are seeing severe degradation in GitHub API causing jobs to not get picked up.
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